Turkish student Mehmet Fatih Öztarsu, who calls himself an idealist, set out directly for the Caucasus. His first stop was the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. Having characterized Azerbaijan as a “kindred country,” he studied international relations at Baku’s Caucasus University. After his education, while pursuing his research in Georgia, he decided to cross over to the other side of the border, passing into Armenia. (more…)
Category: Azerbaijan
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Turkish student travels the Caucasus, lands in Armenia
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Khojali Genocide
The story of Asli Mammadova – the only survivor of Mammadova family in Khojali genocide committed by Armenian and Russian armed forces on 25–26 February 1992 during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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Davutoglu Says Karabakh Peace Only Possible Through Teritorial Integrity
ISTANBUL (Today’s Zaman)—Ankara continues to support a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that sees the dissolution of the mountainous Armenian Republic and its transfer to Azeri control, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday.
“Turkey wishes restoration of peace and order in southern Caucasus within the framework of this solution. We want normalization of relations not only between Turkey and Armenia but also between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Davutoglu told reporters during the 11th summit of the heads of state and government of the Economic Cooperation Council (ECO) in Istanbul.
Asked if pressure on Turkey would change its stance on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Davutoglu said Turkey defends a solution based on Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. “This is the norm of international relations. Similarly, Turkey wishes peace and order to prevail in the southern Caucasus within the scope of this solution,” he said, adding that Ankara is eager to normalize relations with Armenia.
Davutoglu ruled out the likelihood that Turkey will capitulate under pressure, adding that Ankara is ready to support every kind of peaceful process in the Caucasus.
via Davutoglu Says Karabakh Peace Only Possible Through Teritorial Integrity | Asbarez Armenian News.
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Ilham Aliyev: What about cutting gas supply to Turkey?
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that the trilateral meeting of energy ministers in Tbilisi will clarify whether Turkey was willing to help Georgia with its winter gas problems, reads one of the WikiLeaks-published secret cables, the Guardian reported. At the meeting with the U.S. Ambassador, Azerbaijani leader “accused BP for linking commercial issues to the current gas problems, and reported that “nothing had changed” in Azerbaijan’s gas negotiations with Russia during Russia PM Fradkov’s visit to Baku”.Aliyev said that BP could deliver more associated gas from the Azeri-Cirag-Gunesli (ACG) field to Azerbaijan for domestic use, but that it was linking its cooperation in this regard with its desire to extend its Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with Azerbaijan to develop ACG deep gas. According to him, BP was using blackmail. “If BP won’t give us more ACG associated gas, I have instructed our officials to tell them no PSA extensions or ACG deep gas,” he said.
“Aliyev concluded by saying that if Turkey agreed to redistribute its 2007 Shah Deniz gas that “would almost be the way out,” but that then Azerbaijan would still need BP support in both redistributing this Shah Deniz gas and also in giving Azerbaijan more ACG associated gas.
The President also mused that “we could cut the gas supply to Turkey” if need be. The Ambassador pointed out that this would be an extreme measure with serious repercussions. She asked Aliyev if he knew the reasons for Turkish truculence concerning gas redistribution. He said he did not, but suspected it could be monetary, i.e. buying gas at USD 120 per mcm and selling it at USD 230,” the document reads.
via Ilham Aliyev: What about cutting gas supply to Turkey? | Armenia News – NEWS.am.
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Oymen: Turkey Will Support Azerbaijan In Case Of War With Armenia
In case of a war with Armenia, Azerbaijan can rely on the support of Turkey, Turkish MP Onur Oymen told Azerbaijani Trend agency on Thursday.“Turkey will support Azerbaijan. We must return the occupied lands of Azerbaijan, it is our friendly, fraternal, human duty. Turkey can not remain silent when the Azerbaijani territories remain occupied, and we always talk about it,” said the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Republican People’s Party Oymen.
According to him, Turkey’s position regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will remain unchanged regardless of which party is in power in the country.
“The issue of Azerbaijan is not a governmental, but a national question for us. No government can go against the feelings and desires of the people. Nagorno-Karabakh issue is a problem of a national scale like Cyprus for the Turkish people,” said Oymen.
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Turkey, Azerbaijan to sign agreement on visa-free regime
An agreement on the bilateral abolition of the visa regime is expected to be signed between Turkey and Azerbaijan in January 2011, the Turkish Aksam newspaper reported today.About 20 agreements are expected to be signed by the foreign, interior, commerce, industry, transport, environment, health and defense ministers of the two countries.
Earlier, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said work to abolish the visa regime between Azerbaijan and Turkey is underway. He said “some bureaucratic problems” were preventing the process from developing more quickly. After their elimination, the agreement will be signed, he said.
In addition, according to the newspaper, a meeting between the ministers of the two countries with the participation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is also expected to be held in March 2011.
After a meeting between Aliyev and Erdogan in Istanbul in September, a joint declaration on the establishment of a council on strategic cooperation was signed between Azerbaijan and Turkey.
via Newspaper: Turkey, Azerbaijan to sign agreement on visa-free regime | Politics |.